Four-engined Titan 1st Stage?

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centennialofflight@yahoo.com - 03 Oct 2005 19:26 GMT

I recently came across an intriguing photo of what appears to be a
four-engined Titan first stage.

http://www.bernd-leitenberger.de/titan34.html
(scroll down to bottom of web page)

This website is in German (which I don't read or speak) and the photo
is captioned "SDI Titan".

Anyone have any additional details about this item?

Martin

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Cray74@gmail.com - 06 Oct 2005 01:30 GMT

> This website is in German (which I don't read or speak) and the photo
> is captioned "SDI Titan".
>
> Anyone have any additional details about this item?

It's the Barbarian.

http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/barianmm.htm

Mike Miller

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Bruno Berger - 06 Oct 2005 06:11 GMT

> I recently came across an intriguing photo of what appears to be a
> four-engined Titan first stage.
[quoted text clipped - 6 lines]
>
> Anyone have any additional details about this item?

Online translators like http://babelfish.altavista.com/ give you a first
glance of the text (but don't expect to much).
The picture in question is a simple mockup for a SDI proposal shown in
TV (You remember Ronald Reagan's "Star Wars Program"?). This stage has
never been flown or even developed in detail.

Bruno

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Iain McClatchie - 07 Oct 2005 01:15 GMT

Astronautix has approximately the same information as the Google
translation, but in a convenient, easy-to-read format:

http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/barianmm.htm

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